privacy A single, mysterious server exposed 1.2 billion user records Cory Doctorow

security Nest's "ease of use" imperative plus poor integration with Google security has turned it into a hacker's playground Cory Doctorow

breaches Largest dump in history: 2.7 billion records; 773 million of them unique; 140 million never seen before Cory Doctorow

security Firefox Monitor: get alerts if your data shows up in a breach Cory Doctorow

facebook Facebook finally has a form where you can check whether Cambridge Analytica stole your data Cory Doctorow

security Discus breached 17.5 million user accounts in 2012, then did everything right about it in 2017 Cory Doctorow

ddos Internet Archive beleaguered by DDoS attacks, also hacked Jason Weisberger

revenge This guy made a diabolical form to send spammers to password purgatory Mark Frauenfelder

data breach Facebook leak exposes personal info on 533m users Séamus Bellamy

security Comcast assigned every mobile customer the same unchangeable PIN to protect against SIM hijack attacks: 0000 Cory Doctorow

facebookalypse Facebook says giving Cambridge Analytica info on 50 million people wasn't a "breach." It was a feature Mark Frauenfelder

security Download 306,000,000 cracked passwords and make sure you're not using one of them Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Security researchers repeatedly warned Kids Pass about bad security, only to be ignored and blocked Cory Doctorow

Copyfight How companies should plan for, and respond to, security breaches Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Collapsing "connected toy" company did nothing while hackers stole millions of voice recordings of kids and parents Cory Doctorow

privacy Decision to retain personally identifying information puts Australian census under threat Cory Doctorow

privacy Anal fisting site breached: 100K passwords, usernames, email addresses and IPs extracted Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Vtech breach dumps 4.8m families' information, toy security is to blame Cory Doctorow